DreamWorks Animation announced that its chief creative officer Bill Damaschke will step down from his position as veteran producers Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria transition into co-presidents of feature animation, according to the Los Angeles Times. ...

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s documentary “Citizen Koch” (which opened June 27 at Laemmle’s Playhouse) achieved a certain notoriety when its nominally independent backers at ITVS dropped support for the film. Although other reasons...

Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) received a $1,000 political contribution from the American subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., according to the latest information from the Federal Election Commission.
The contribution in March came from the...

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — The Glendale YMCA Quarterback Club, in its 68th year, meets Tuesday's at the Elk's Lodge. The following are odds and ends from the sixth meeting of the year.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS SEEKING GOOD HEALTH
Mired in a rare three-game losing skid, St. Francis High will likely see the return of three key players to its lineup Friday night against visiting Chaminade in a Mission League contest.
Veteran St. Francis Coach Jim Bonds said running backs Michael Melnick and Austin De Los Santos and...

Words are important. We can have discussions about politics, policies and ideas and forget the role that words play in shaping how we feel about an issue.
It seems, on its face, an obvious thing, but when news agencies dictate the terminology of debate, it's more insidious than Orwell's "1984." It's more dangerous because most of us take it for granted.
Recent revelations from News Corp. that it uses "Government Option" to describe a component of health-care reform as opposed to the term "Public...